No Land! No House! No Vote!
[1] The name is meant to imply that if government does not deliver on issues important to affected communities (such as land and housing) these movements will not vote.
campaign, the Landless People's Movement and the National Land Committee argued that voters have to be registered in their home ward to vote and that it would be impossible to vote if families were under threat of eviction or had no secure tenure.
[3] Amnesty International has reported that LPM activists were tortured during the 2004 national government elections after taking on a 'No Land!
The AEC held an election day march in Cape Town saying they would abstain from voting.
campaign was illegally banned by the Durban Municipality and was met with police repression.
On 8 February 2009, the South African Police allegedly beat and tear-gassed Gugulethu residents who were holding a meeting about housing because the ANC provincial chairperson Mcebisi Skwatsha claimed they were disrupting voters registration.
[9][10] Eight members of the Landless Peoples Movement were also arrested in March 2009 and some claim that this is related to the No Vote!
[16] Local community organisations also organised vote strikes in a number of towns around the country including, for instance, King William's Town,[17] Ficksburg,[18] Grahamstown[19] and Cato Ridge.
[21] It has been reported that "Nearly 75% of South Africans aged 20–29 did not vote in the 2011 [local government] elections" and that "South Africans in that age group were more likely to have taken part in violent (sic) street protests against the local ANC than to have voted for the ruling party".
[26] Proponents also make the structural argument that the electoral process itself is undemocratic, that poor people must speak for themselves, and that the movements should be unaligned and pressure whichever political party comes into power.
[36] According to South African President Jacob Zuma "If you do not vote, you are depriving yourself of a freedom we have fought for and given you.
